Headline

Director of Engineering | Head of Technology | Enterprise SaaS & AWS Cloud Platforms | Distributed Systems | AI-Enabled Engineering | Global Product Delivery

About

I build the technology foundations, engineering teams and delivery practices that help software products grow. In 2021, I joined ZignEx as its first engineer. I built the frontend foundation from scratch, helped deliver the first production release within 6–8 months, and progressed through Senior Engineer and Principal Software Engineer to Director of Innovation and Technology. Since then, I have helped grow the engineering organization from one engineer to more than 30 professionals across frontend, backend, QA and DevOps. My work connects architecture and engineering execution with measurable product outcomes:• Helped evolve the platform into eight integrated products supported by five shared libraries. • Built capabilities that contributed to acquiring 5+ enterprise clients and expanding existing customer deployments. • Helped increase platform capacity from approximately 200,000 to 700,000 end customers. • Reduced deployment time from 5–6 hours to approximately 30–60 minutes through Docker, CI/CD and automation. • Established production practices across 15+ client environments within a seven-figure AWS cloud estate. • Interviewed or approved 15+ engineering hires and developed four engineers into leadership roles. Today, I lead through engineering managers, align annual technology goals with company priorities, and drive improvements across architecture, delivery, security and engineering quality. I am also leading AI adoption across 20+ professionals, using ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor in development, QA, code validation, DevOps and architectural decision support. My technical interests include distributed systems, browser-based data platforms, geospatial visualization and performance engineering. Through Stratum Map, my open-source map-rendering project, I continue to explore these challenges hands-on. I value clear ownership, practical experimentation, reliable delivery and a culture where people grow into leaders. I welcome conversations about Director of Technology, Head of Technology and engineering leadership opportunities in India and internationally.

Location

Greater Indore Area

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

mcp

Langflow

OpenAI Agents SDK

Work experience

Director Technology and Innovation at ZignEx, Jan 2026 - Present · 10 mos, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, Lead technology strategy and engineering execution across frontend, backend, QA and DevOps, with two direct-report managers and approximately 12 indirect reports.Joined as the company’s first engineer in 2021 and helped establish the product and engineering foundations as the organization grew to 30+ professionals.Selected contributions: • Built the frontend platform from scratch and helped deliver the initial production release within 6–8 months. • Established reusable foundations supporting eight products and five shared libraries. • Delivered mapping, analytics and operational capabilities that contributed to enterprise customer acquisition and expansion. • Helped scale platform capacity from approximately 200K to 700K end customers through architecture and performance improvements.• Reduced deployment time from 5–6 hours to 30–60 minutes by introducing containerization, deployment scripts and CI/CD across approximately 20 services. • Improved release predictability through biweekly sprints, planned quarterly releases and stronger production-readiness controls. • Led infrastructure setup and production-readiness work across 15+ client environments within a seven-figure AWS estate. • Introduced AI-assisted engineering practices across 20+ professionals, supported by human review, testing and validation.• Led penetration-testing readiness across frontend, backend, mapping and GIS services, helping reduce annual security findings from approximately 8–10 to 2–3. • Translated SOC 2 Type II controls into actionable engineering requirements and automated controls where practical. • Developed four engineers into lead or management roles and established annual goals, mentoring and continuous-learning practices. Engineering Management, Software Architecture, Technical Leadership, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and DevOps.

Principal Software Engineer I at ZignEx, Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Senior Software Engineer at ZignEx, Jul 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Senior Software Developer at Hvantage Technologies Inc USA, Oct 2020 - Jun 2021 · 9 mos, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Contractor at Waste Management, Jun 2020 - Oct 2020 · 5 mos, Madhya Pradesh, India

Software Engineer at Think Perfect, Nov 2019 - May 2020 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, developing Front-end for product based services using Angular 8. consuming REST API's and and creating Front-end services based on given business logic's. Coordinating with Backend team as well as guiding them with certain technical experiences. working with senior team players to architect current code base and services which are getting consumed. mentoring Junior developers.

Senior Developer at Scketch Digital Solutions, Apr 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Responsible for developing Frontends in HTML, Angular, Ionic apps, responsive design layouts, managing DevOps (Linux server administration, AWS). Good understanding of business requirements and ability to deliver business logic within specific timeframe. Regular client interaction to understand priorities and plan deliverables Share knowledge with developers to make them familiar with process and technology.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), cse, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

school, SAINT PAUL HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

Public links

github: https://github.com/wavesMeetU

medium: https://medium.com/@tarangrathod1